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Typical of the AIDS epidemics is that governments in developing countries under-invest in drugs production because of …
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Despite a culture of innovation, the U.S. health care system has been markedly deficient in its implementation of information technology (IT). Although recent initiatives have endeavored to remedy this shortcoming, fragmentation, high costs, information asymmetries, and evolving regulatory...
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Mortality is a stochastic process. We have imprecise knowledge about the probability distribution of mortality rates in the future. Mortality risk, therefore, can be defined in a broad term of ambiguity. In this paper, we investigate the effects of ambiguity and ambiguity aversion on prices of...
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This paper investigates the impact of infectious diseases on the evolution of sovereign credit default swap (CDS) spreads for a panel of 77 advanced and developing countries. Using annual data over the 2004-2020 period, we find that infectious-disease outbreaks have no discernible effect on CDS...
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. It aims to apply statistical models for the HIV/AIDS data in Khartoum state centers of testing blood and counseling. AIDS … is recognized as an emerging disease only in the early 1980s, AIDS has rapidly established itself throughout the world …, and is likely to endure and persist well into the 21s century. AIDS has evolved from a mysterious illness to a global …
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This paper uses data from a randomized controlled trial to study the impacts of food supplementation and medical treatment on the receipt of human recognition by malnourished, HIV-infected adults in Kenya. Questions specially designed to measure human recognition were included in the trial,...
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Lack of knowledge about risk differentials regarding AIDS seriously hampers the study of the economic impact of AIDS in … disaggregated mortality tables. One main result of our model is that educated people have a higher risk of dying through AIDS …
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We try to link the distribution of the AIDS epidemic over an African population with the distribution of income. For … AIDS on household and individual incomes. The model is implemented using a rich set of Ivorian surveys. The results reveal … the complexity of the interaction between demographic behavior and the income generating process. The AIDS epidemic seems …
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were able to incorporate HIV/AIDS in their identity without it being disruptive to their biography, were pursuing safer …-diagnosis identity and sexual behaviour. Conclusions: People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) had to rework their sense of identity following …
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Children living in HIV/AIDS affected households bear the heaviest burden of the epidemic. Besides direct vertical … transmission, HIV/ AIDS potentially worsens the children's welfare indirectly through its socio-economic impact. This paper uses …
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